Weblinks:
* International Women’s Media Foundation: http://www.iwmf.org/
* Media Scope: Violence, Women and the Media: http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/vwm.htm
* Association for Women in Sport’s Media: http://www.awsmonline.org/
* Media Awareness Network: Media Portrayals of Girls and Women: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/women_and_girls/index.cfm
* Girls, Women and Media Project: http://www.mediaandwomen.org/
* Media Portrayals of Men and Masculinity: http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/men_and_masculinity/index.cfm
* Center for Media Literacy: Men, Media and Myth: http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article601.html
* Subverb a site devoted to subverting stereotypical images of women in media.
Suggested Films:
Tough Guise videocass 03-418 85 mins
Killing Us Softly III videocass 03-399 34 mins
Poverty Outlaw videocass 04-21 60 mins
What a Girl Wants videocass 04-1125 33 mins
Reading List:
Must-See TV or ESPN: Entertainment and Sports Media Exposure and Body-Image Distortion in College Women
Journal of Communication, vol. 54, issue 1
Mar 2004
Kimberly L Bissell and Zhou Peiquin
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)
Voices of the Marginalized on the Internet: Examples from a Website for Women of South Asia
Journal of Communication, vol. 54, issue 3
Sep 2004
Ananda Mitra
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)
Gender and multicultural issues in advertising: Stages on the research highway
Journal of Advertising, vol. 28, issue 1
Spring 1999
Barbara B Stern
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)
Girls Rule!: Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Jun 2004, vol. 21, issue 2
Sarah Banet-Weiser
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)
Communication with the Sexes (How men and women respond to different types of print advertisements)
Journal of Advertising, volume 33, issue 3
Fall 2004
Sanjay Putrevu
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)
Flabless is fabulous: How Latina and Anglo women read and incorporate the excessively thin body ideal into everyday experience
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Autumn 2002, vol. 79, issue 3
J. Robyn Goodman
(Norlin: PER ROOM 070.5 J82)
Media, class, and western influence in Japanese women's conceptions of attractiveness
Feminist Media Studies, vol. 3, issue 2
Jul 2003
Fabienne Darling-Wolf
(Journal is available via I.L.L.)
Of Being Arab Women Before and After September 11: The Enactment of Communal Identities in Talk
Howard Journal of Communication
Apr/Jun 2004, vol. 154, issue 2
Saskia Witteborn
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)
Young American Women (Focus on daughters of the feminist revolution, women between the ages of 25 and 34)
Monthly Labor Review
Jun 2004, vol. 127, issue 6
Solidelle Fortier Wasser
(Available in Business Library: Microfilm 3957)
Portrayal of men and women in U.S. Spanish-language television commercials
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Spring 2000, vol. 77, issue 1
Jamie A. Fullerton; Alice Kendrick
(Norlin: PER ROOM 070.5 J82)
Mothers and Sons: Preference Formation and Female Labor Force Dynamics
Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 119, issue 4
Nov 2004
Raquel Fernandez; Alessandra Fogli; Claudia Olivetti
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)
Global Queens, National Celebrities: Tales of Feminine Triumph in Post-Liberalization India
Critical Studies in Mass Communication
Dec 2004, vol. 21, issue 4
Radhika Parameswaran
(Norlin: PER ROOM P87 .C94)
Preface: Women and Work: Where Are We, Where Did We Come From, and Where Are We Going?
Journal of Social Issues
Dec 2004, vol. 60, issue 4
Rosalind Chait Barnett
(Journal is available online via Norlin website)